Mount Kanwary Public School Newsletter

Dear Parents and Carers

Welcome back to the final and busy term of the year. Welcome also to our new students, Maddy and Kiana, who have joined our Mt Kanwary School community. We look forward to working in partnership with you for the education of your children.

Online Enrolments

We are excited to announce the rollout of the new Online Enrolment System the happened on Monday 26 October 2020.

The Online Enrolment System is designed to provide flexibility for parents to submit an enrolment application online and at a time that is suitable. The application can be accessed on all browsers and mobile devices including IOS and Android.

COVID-19 Update

The latest information for parents can be found here:

https://education.nsw.gov.au/covid-19/advice-for-families

https://www.nsw.gov.au/covid-19

The Department of Education released an updated set of guidelines for COVID on Sunday 8 December. The school is currently working through the guidelines and developing a plan for COVID safe end of year functions. We will provide updates shortly in regards to the following events:

• Presentation Day
• Party Day

All excursions will follow a COVID safe plan. Information regarding these events will be sent home soon.

Staff Development Days

The Department has announced that there will be two School Development Days at the beginning of next year. The School Development Days are scheduled for the following dates:

• 27 and 28 January - Years 1 - 6 students return Friday 29 January 2021 and Kindergarten start on Monday 1 February 2021. There will be one staff development day at the end of 2021.

Remembrance Day

We will be having a small Remembrance Day assembly for staff and students tomorrow at 11am.

NAIDOC Week

The school will be celebrating NAIDOC week differently this year due to the many restrictions of COVID-19. Students will be participating in a variety of activities in class and as a school. These will include painting, singing and story time.

I would also like to introduce Mrs Rebecca Sommerville to our school from tomorrow! Mrs Sommerville is a university student in her third year of studies for teaching. Mrs Sommerville is predominantly attached to the Wattles but will also join the whole-school in the afternoons in the Banksia's classroom with Mrs Davis.

Skoolbag App

Please check that your Skoolbag App is current. Often with skoolbag when there is an update you need to re-install the app. Skoolbag is our daily form of communication along with Facebook.

Have a wonderful week!

Katrina Cameron

Principal

Dear Parents

We want to offer families more flexibility with their work commitments and child care arrangements and to create more opportunities across the whole community. Having Out of School Hours Care available at local school is a great way to achieve this.

As part of the NSW Government's $120 million Before and After School Care (BASC) commitment, parents at all NSW schools were recently invited to complete a 'Have Your Say' survey. The survey asked parents to tell us how they are using Out of School Hours Care, how much it costs them, whether they plan to keep using it and what difficulties they experience in accessing it. The survey results have helped us to better understand the needs of families and what's important to them.

We are now asking all parents to complete a quick follow up survey by Friday 27 November 2020. 

You can access the survey at https://surveys.education.nsw.gov.au/s3/OSHCParentSurvey. This information will help us to target the rollout of more before Out of School Hours Care services in the right areas.

If your child does not require Out of School, we ask that you please still complete the first section of this survey as it gives us important information about the level of demand at your school.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact your school at Mt Kanwary Public School on 4987 2596 or the BASC Program team by phone on 1300 244 145 or email at; BASCReformEdet.nsw.edu.au.

Kind regards

Anthony Futia

Director, Early Childhood, Canteens and Uniforms | School Infrastructure NSW